They pay down the mortgage and allow me to live for free.For everyone that has not lived in their home for 10+ years (I can see you being fairly entrenched at that point), why wouldn't you consider doing this?

I think it gets much harder in that neighborhood the further entrenched you get to the old community.

It was a great decision and I'm now fully entrenched in real estate. 

They can’t possibly be shown a better way.They are entrenched with their "myside" bias; their way is the only right way.

But with disruption, there is always backlash, and there are always entrenched interests, and all sorts of rich and powerful folks who have something to lose if the status quo changes.

But if force mind to say "ok, let's do this different, let's pretend everything with HOA is 100% correct" and look back trying to find how it all goes together, may learn some new perspectives in it all that can aid going forward.From what shared thus far, i have a feeling that things got adversarial early, and that entrenchment made any positive resolutions very hard.

- Asian neighborhoods are entrenched.

As a fellow newbie entrenched in the REI learning stage right now, I appreciate these kinds of posts.

I know several people with long-entrenched family members living for free in a home that was paid for by other members, long gone or still alive.

Or that they won't be dealing with their entrenched, non paying tenant, or relative or the hoarder house in their life time.